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'No banquet lasts forever': NYT's Maggie Haberman pours cold water of Trump's UK visit

Despite unhappiness about Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom outside the castle walls, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Sean McCreesh reported the American president is highly enjoying his respite from the troubles he left behind in the U.S. as he hobnobs with royalty and the wealthy.

But, they noted, that will soon come to a crashing end. Back home, the U.S. is embroiled by Trump’s militarization of cities, a culture war raging over the shooting of far-right commentator Charlie Kirk, ICE agents grabbing immigrants off the streets and a looming government shutdown.

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Trump's immigration crackdown inadvertently creates a boom for major drug kingpin

President Donald Trump pledged to reduce the high cost of drugs, but he likely didn't mean the cost of cocaine.

A Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday revealed that Trump's mass deportation operations have removed important agents from those in U.S. Customs and Border Protection stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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UK 'revealed something' with 'made up' ceremony to appease Trump's 'king' fantasy: report

The United Kingdom is "desperate" to appease President Donald Trump, "shamelessly" giving him a made up ceremony and indulging in his "king fantasy" during his second state visit to Britain on Wednesday, according to media reports.

"Trump demands spectacle, and Britain provides it. He wants to be king, and, for a day, Britain is letting him," Tom Sykes, European Editor At Large for the Daily Beast wrote. "It made up the entire ceremony from scratch from the elements of other royal spectacles."

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UK cops seize mobile billboard with Trump-Epstein photo amid president's visit

Police have seized a truck driving a billboard around Windsor Castle, where President Donald Trump is visiting for a state visit. The billboard showed a giant photo of convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein standing with Trump.

The National, a Scottish newspaper, uploaded a video showing the banner as it was driving down the street. A police officer is then seen stopping the truck, turning off the sign and driving off with it.

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'Complete surrender': Trump trashed over latest deal with China

U.S. law limits media ownership by non-U.S. citizens, which has caused complications for the Chinese app TikTok's operations in the U.S. Now President Donald Trump is being accused of rolling over for the Chinese government in an effort to solve the company's problems.

The tech company Oracle, which is owned by a close ally of President Donald Trump, will play a key role in a reported deal between Trump and China, CBS News reported Tuesday. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's son, David Ellison, runs the company Skydance Media, which recently purchased Paramount Global, which runs networks like CBS and Comedy Central, where shows have been critical of Trump.

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Exposed: How Trump family raked in billions in secret deals brokered by top advisor

In a newly detailed report, The New York Times alleges that President Donald Trump's family secured billions of dollars through a deal orchestrated by his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son Zach Witkoff.

An extensive article by Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Bradley Hope, Tripp Mickle, and Paul Mozur describes how Witkoff and Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan have "become both diplomatic allies and business partners, testing the limits of ethics rules while enriching the president, his family and his inner circle."

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Trump says he doesn't want to 'frighten off' foreign companies after raid on Hyundai

President Donald Trump tried to do damage control after the Department of Homeland Security raided a Hyundai plant in Georgia and detained hundreds of workers with legal visas.

"When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other 'things,' come into the United States with massive Investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land," Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social.

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'Then comes the tell': Ex-Trump insider says president just sent a 'signal' to adversary

Donald Trump is sending "signals" to Putin, according to an ex-operative with deep ties to Trump and Ukraine.

Soviet-born Lev Parnas, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first administration, was purportedly sent to Ukraine to help Trump and Giuliani make contacts there for the purposes of digging up negative info on Hunter Biden. Parnas was later convicted of campaign finance violations, and today reports on Trump from outside the administration.

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'You are just wasting my time!’ Trump demands allies do ‘as I say’ in early morning rant

President Donald Trump fired off at NATO countries Saturday morning in a fiery social media post, demanding that American allies would have to do “as I say” to bring about the end to the Russo-Ukraine War.

“This is not TRUMP’S WAR (it would never have started if I was President!), it is Biden’s and Zelenskyy’s WAR,” Trump wrote Saturday in an online post on his social media platform Truth Social.

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'Large number of farmers won’t survive this': Trump's new trade moves put growers at risk

The game of chicken Donald Trump is playing with China as part of his tariff war is reportedly on the verge of doing irreparable harm to America’s soybean farmers with Chinese negotiators holding the upper hand.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, soybeans farmers are poised to harvest “tens of millions of tons of soybeans,” but their biggest market, China, is not buying, thereby putting pressure of the Trump administration to make a tariff deal.

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'It's unacceptable': 'Infuriated' Trump lashed out at ally in private phone call

The White House is reportedly “infuriated” following the surprise Israeli strike Tuesday on American-ally Qatar, an operation that the United States was given little advanced notice of and has put a key international alliance in jeopardy.

According to Israeli officials, the strike on Doha, the capital of Qatar, was intended to eliminate Hamas leadership, specifically those actively involved in the ongoing ceasefire negotiations. The strike was immediately condemned by Trump, who said he was “very unhappy” with what he called an “unfortunate incident.”

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UK fires ambassador to US over ties to 'best pal' Jeffrey Epstein

Lord Peter Mandelson has been removed as British ambassador to the U.S. over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

UK Prime Minster Keir Starmer ordered his firing after a series of damaging revelations about his longtime friendship with the disgraced financier and convicted child sex abuser, reported The Telegraph, which had previously revealed emails showing Mandelson advised Epstein on how to respond to criminal charges over soliciting a minor in 2008.

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'Godawful mess' in US has foreign businessmen second-guessing working with Trump: NBC

Donald Trump’s desire to deport immigrants from the U.S. by force is running headlong into his drive to increase foreign investments in the U.S. in the hope that it will improve his dismal job numbers.

Asked about an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia by agents working for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem that led to a round-up of 475 employees, many of them South Koreans sent to help with the set-up, NBC’s Christine Romans said foreign investors are becoming nervous.

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